Welcome to the Services, Cybersecurity and Safety researchgroup.

The goal of the SCS group is to develop methods and techniques for developing IT-based services that balance service levels with safety- and security levels, and to develop methods and techniques that make existing IT-based services more secure.

Latest News

The Twente Hacking Squad (THS) regularly participates in online Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions. Last weekend, students of University's team competed against 619 international teams in the RCTF competition. By solving challenges on the various topics, such as web, reverse engineering, exploitation, and cryptography, the THS ended in the overall competition as 31st.

Do you want to learn how to hack? Do you like to find flaws in computer programs and would like to learn how to exploit them? Always wanted to break improperly implemented cryptography? Then be sure to join the THS.

We have bi-weekly meetings at Wednesday evening and regularly participate in CTF events. Send an email to Tim van de Kamp or Riccardo Bortolameotti and we'll add you to our mailing list.

The Twente Hacking Squad (THS) is the Capture the Flag (CTF) team of the University of Twente. The team is supported by the Services, Cybersecurity and Safety (SCS) research group.

Simon de Vries, one of our Cybersecurity Master graduates, received the prestigious KHMW Internet thesis award in the 'Internet and Engineering Sciences' category for his Master thesis entitled ''Achieving 128-bit Security Against Quantum Attacks in OpenVPN''. We congratulate him and his supervisor Dr. Andreas Peter for this achievement!

Simon de Vries, one of our Master graduates in the Kerckhoffs program Computer Security, received the ENIAC award for the best Master thesis in computer science in the academic year 2015-2016 with his master thesis on '' Achieving 128-bit Security Against Quantum Attacks in OpenVPN''. We congratulate him and his supervisor Dr. Andreas Peter for this achievement!